How To Edit A Movie


by Evan Nelson - Date: 2007-02-13 - Word Count: 274 Share This!

Being an Editor for a film or video is one of the most exciting jobs out there. The editor of a film or video is basically the second director. It does depend if the movie is a Film or a Documentary. In a Documentary things are a lot more random so the editor has to piece together a lot more random footage than they would in a Film situation. In a Film situation the editing is done mostly in the "storyboards" process. Editing a Film tends to be easier to editing a Documentary.

Now these days with cheap cameras and affordable editing software. Anyone can be an Editor and looking out there on the web there are a lot of people are making movies. Not so much editing them but defiantly making them. If they were professionally edited it would add that extra spark of creative control.

Editing a documentary will keep you on your toes. You kind of have to piece together a puzzle and make a story out of it. It's a very creative role and is required that a creative person is needed to make that role happen effectively. With the complete ease to make a movie these days anything can be a documentary or plain out storytelling movie.

Back in the day it was a Lot more time consuming, obviously. Get a good computer. Least 120. gig. Get S-video. Get a cheap camera. Think of a story. Edit make a movie. Make Money. (There are many more components to this process if you want to make a big movie but all that will be learned over the process..) here's More on Editing


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